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   Ex·cept

   /ikˈsept/

   

   preposition

   • 1. not including; other than: "they work every day except Sunday"

   conjunction

   • 1. used before a statement that forms an exception to one just made: "I didn't tell him anything, except that I needed the money"
   • ▪ unless: "she never offered advice, except it were asked of her"

   verb

   • 1. specify as not included in a category or group; exclude: formal "he excepted from his criticism a handful of distinguished writers"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin except- ‘taken out’, from the verb excipere, from ex- ‘out of’ + capere ‘take’.

   Scrabble Points: 17

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • C

     3

   • E

     1

   • P

     3

   • T

     1

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